Rocket’s Tail By Kate Bush From 1989’s "The Sensual World" That November night looking up into the sky You said "Hey wish that was me up there-- It’s the biggest rocket I could find And it’s holding the night in its arms If only for a moment. I can’t see the look in its eyes But I’m sure it must be laughing." But it seemed to me The saddest thing I’d ever seen And I thought you were crazy Wishing such a thing. I saw only a stick on fire Alone on its journey Home to the quickening ground With no one there to catch it. I put on my pointed hat And my black and silver suit And I check my gunpowder pack And I strap the stick on my back. And dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge-- Nobody seems to see me. Then with the fuse in my hand And now shooting into the night! 3X: And still as a rocket I land in the river. Was it me said you were crazy? 2X: I put on my cloudiest suit Size 5 lightning boots too. ’Cause I am a rocket On fire. With my tail on fire Tail on fire On fire. Look at me go look at look at me